When my MIL issued her impromptu invitation to my house this past Sunday, she infringed upon the last episode of a summer long weekend miniseries I’d been watching about the western pioneering experience in the 19th century and the impact upon the Native Americans, the clash and this synergestic experience (TNT’s Into the West). So we’re sitting there watching two estranged brothers who are Native American who are reunited and she leans over to Garrett and says, “Now you see, that’s showing that the Indians were real people had feelings and loved each other.”

This disturbed me on so many levels. Probably foremost that she assumes some sort of ignorance/prejudice in my children that they should conquer that is SO not there but just reveals her own re-education. Talk abotu generation gap.

WTF?

Yeah, it sounds like she’s trying to show them that Indians are good! And that it needs to be forced into TV, because otherwise they’d show that they’re bad. And also that people assume as much. Very odd. And obnoxious.